Top Saudi intelligence officials close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked a small group of businessmen last year about using private companies to assassinate Iranian enemies of the kingdom,...
In a departure from Iran’s usual tactics of hiding behind proxies, the country’s supreme leader wants any retaliation for the killing of a top military commander to be carried out...
The death of Qassim Suleimani strengthened the hand of hard-liners, experts say, and undermined those who have tried to normalize relations with the West.
The fateful decision in 1979 to admit Mohammed Reza Pahlavi prompted the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran and helped doom the Carter presidency. Some of the information may...
The bitter standoff in the Persian Gulf has softened in recent weeks amid a sudden flurry of peace talks between Saudi and Qatari leaders. Arriving in …
France’s foreign minister suggested on Wednesday that Paris was seriously considering triggering a mechanism within the Iran nuclear deal that could lead to U.N. sanctions, given Tehran’s repeated breach of...
A federal judge on Friday ordered Iran to pay a Washington Post reporter and his family nearly $180 million in damages after the reporter was imprisoned for almost 18 months...
Jojo Anavim may be a contemporary pop artist himself, but he says that his personal art collection is informed mostly by his Persian-Jewish roots.
After years of growing hostility and competition for influence, Saudi Arabia and Iran have taken steps toward indirect talks to try to reduce the tensions…
The telephone line had been secretly set up. President Trump waited on the other end. All President Rouhani of Iran had to do was come out of his hotel suite.
Secretary of State Pompeo accused Iran on Wednesday of having carried out an “act of war” with aerial strikes on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia last weekend.
President Trump is saying that Iran appears to be responsible for the weekend attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. We look at where things...
Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for war against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Will Trump finally deliver?
One point of agreement for the presidential candidates: The nuclear deal needs to be restored.
As US sanctions on Iranian oil and petrochemical products have taken hold, some of the world’s shipping fleets have defied the restrictions by “going dark”.
Officials said the president had initially approved attacks on a handful of Iranian targets, like radar and missile batteries.
“Trump’s credibility is about as solid as a snake oil salesman”
Prince Mohammed bin Zayed grew the U.A.E.’s power by following America’s lead. He now has an increasingly bellicose agenda of his own. And Trump seems to be following him.
“In my view, what we should be doing is telling Saudi Arabia — which is a despotic, murderous regime — that they have got to start sitting down and negotiating...
“This is a crisis that has entirely been manufactured by the Trump administration,”
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East.
Iran is warning that it may resume production on its nuclear program, reviving a crisis that had been contained by the signing of the Iran...
The Trump administration has reached a critical juncture in its efforts to tighten United States oil sanctions against Iran and Venezuela.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left open the possibility on Wednesday of entering a conflict with Iran without first seeking explicit congressional approval.
Won’t Israeli society at some point also feel the nefarious effects of its government’s inhumanity toward us?
The growing prominence of the B.D.S. movement — and the backlash to it — is widening fault lines from college campuses to Capitol Hill. Aka, Sanders vs Clinton.
The United States’ attempts to isolate Iran, including by punishing Iraqi militias and politicians who are supported by Iranian officials, has deepened tensions not only...
“What she said was she had been involved in horrific war crimes with the Air Force,” said Kevin Barrett, a controversial scholar of Islam who had an extensive conversation with...
The Christian right doesn’t like Trumpt only for his judges. They like his style. The great thing about kings like Cyrus, as far as Christian nationalists are concerned, is that...
International nuclear inspectors reported Tuesday evening that their mission to Iran had failed, with Tehran blocking their access to a site the inspectors believe could...
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